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17:45:_dizMew: money is magic that the gnomes made for us to buy Vtuber merch
17:45I have nine of their figures, the last two came broken and i got no response when I tried to contact them so I just stopped buying after that
17:48The Grimmicoin being made of silver, which shot up in price, really added to the losses
17:56They shipped me a mangled figure after a year + of waiting :(
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17:59Small text!:_dizDown:
18:02its very common with smaller artist-based businesses
18:23bro the Grimmicoin sliver prices was wild
18:25Longer indeed :_dizDown:
18:30hard to calculate tariffs ngl
18:30Dude shipping expensive
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18:33who knew plastic is expensive:face-orange-biting-nails:
18:34Pre Order prevents sitting on unwanted merchandise.
18:39sometimes they just bad at math
18:54Macroeconomic factors are hard to predict as well
18:55Current Margins don't matter if you predicted explosive growth
18:56Zentreya melting a whole wave(s) of orders sank them IMO.
19:04The disconnect between vtuber merch (long run prepaid) vs the supply chain (spending monthly) gives a false sense of security of covering the costs but leaves a lot of room for something to go wrong
19:09a little bit of oopsie poopsie
19:11A yes lets do a 10% margin of error on cost. 30% increase in costs.
19:13Tiny margin, no room for mistakes.
19:15Economy of scales :_dizCheer:
19:18The margins get thinner exponentially too if one of those overhead factors is miscalculated
19:20So mass producing is cheaper? :_dizDizzy::_dizDizzy: